As the new sun rises, Project Anchor quietly unfolds.
Elegies were being played, and batch after batch of volunteers, with the intention of dying, became anchors and joined the battlefield "beyond common sense". Just to maintain the order of the dark world, the number of prisoners in the prison increased unknowingly. Few murders, arson and other cases were prevented. The first batch of 500 people was invested, but thousands of people were saved.
Every day, Bincheng regularly reports "outside of common sense" situations to the outside world. The whole city broadcasts them all the time, hoping that the victims will not lose their minds. Killing ordinary people cannot solve any problems.
They also help other cities to screen for "outside the common sense" events, and have become the anchor point of the entire Xia Kingdom.
The more you invest in the Anchor Point Project, the deeper your understanding beyond common sense becomes.
This is a rule calculated from big data and has certain reference value——
First of all, the photos posted "outside of common sense" every day are not fixed, but more often fall on "desperate" people, such as those with gambling debts, those who have committed crimes, those whose families are not harmonious, etc. .....will take the initiative to do the things in the photos, and even go to the last step to complete 'suicide'.
As for the trigger mechanism, the result is that "whoever harvests photos will surely fall."
It may seem hopeless, that receiving the photo would mean a curse, but it is not.
According to Bincheng's analysis, these situations do not mean that people who receive photos are cursed, nor do they mean that people who are desperate are more likely to receive photos. It may be the result of victim bias.
Only the victim can remember the existence of the photo, causing the results to show a victim trend.
This situation also occurs in the Anchor Project. Having seen the photos does not mean that you can remember the photos. Only after completing the first mission and officially becoming a victim can you remember the existence of the photos.
It could also be explained that desperate people are more likely to activate photos.
But this is just a guess. It is not clear whether the photos are driving people to complete tasks, or whether people are actively completing tasks because of their own desires.
There is quite a feeling of cause and effect.
From these aspects, the Anchor Point Project seems to have been successful. With the addition of Anchor Point, the situation in Bincheng does not seem to have collapsed.
But everyone knows that if this continues, Bincheng will fall sooner or later.
In fact, the situation in Bincheng is going from bad to worse. Murders and arson incidents are still increasing, and there are more and more people, cats, dogs, and cats. Bincheng has never seen the turning point from bad to good, nor has it seen a balance. hope.
This is the limitation of the Anchor Plan.
Anchor points must exist batch after batch for a long time, which means that too many people cannot be invested at one time, but if the number of people is small, the execution power is not enough.
A large number of cases are still happening every day, in villages, towns, in unknown corners, and in public squares.
Although Bincheng constantly emphasizes that safety is in the hands of the people themselves, and they should not go out casually on weekdays. The supplies will be replenished according to time. Once notified by the police, they must find a safe shelter as soon as possible, but there are still many people Going out, disobeying instructions, and feeling the need to save oneself.
It is human nature to flee from danger, which can bring turmoil and uneasiness, which can easily lead to the spread of despair and breed "outside of common sense".
From the perspective of the masses, there are unknown dangers on one side and warnings from the police on the other. Although you can't feel anything, the god of death is calling your name. Sooner or later, your name will be called.
Either be killed or become a puppet for the photo.
Under the atmosphere of despair, many people will be unable to resist the temptation of photos and step into the abyss.
In fact, there are still many conjectures waiting to be verified.
For example, should criminals who commit crimes be killed?
If they had been killed directly, these unworthy criminals would have been killed hundreds of times, but the final purpose of the photo was to kill the criminals. If they were killed directly, would there be more serious consequences and greater spread? ?
Maybe, but when necessary, the police will never be restrained by these conjectures. If a person is about to destroy a high-rise building and kill thousands of people, he must be shot immediately. In fact, this has been done .
What the harm is... is also unknown.
Maybe they haven't discovered it yet, or maybe they have discovered it but can't understand it.
A drop in the bucket is the most realistic portrayal of Bincheng today. The Anchor Point Plan cannot save too many people at all. It is just a temporary measure to fill lives. If you want to truly solve the problem, there are only two ways -
Either find the weakness "beyond common sense", or find the strength to fight against ghosts.
At this moment, before the outside world is leaked, every city has already started to defend against the outside world.
For example, in Dancheng, a long iron net was pulled up and heavily guarded, blocking communication with Bincheng.
Since people's consciousness will be distorted by the victims of Bincheng, then use the simplest method to block everyone, no matter who they are, from stepping through this wall, so that it will not leak out.
Dancheng was also the first city to announce that it would not accept refugees from Bincheng for the time being.
They call it the "firewall" plan.
Seeing Dancheng's actions, cities in the north secretly began to build retaining walls to prevent spillage.
The research on the evil ghosts in each city was finally no longer hidden, with all kinds of fanfare, information was circulating in various cities, and everyone focused their attention on the upper city.
Shangcheng experienced the "Tao Xian" incident and made rapid progress in the research on ghost incidents. It was officially announced that it had conceptual ideas on "Ghost vs. Ghost".
They first thought of Taoist believers.
Taoist believers are not real ghosts. They are also puppets. Can they be used for their own purposes?
This is Shangcheng's latest idea to compete with Taoist immortals for believers through hypnosis, training, education and other methods.
However, according to the feedback from Shangcheng, the belief in Daoxian among Daoxian believers has long been deeply ingrained and cannot be shaken at all, and there has been no actual progress.
What the actual situation is... only Shangcheng himself knows.
The other is the study of weaknesses outside common sense.
In addition to Dancheng's firewall plan, there is also the hypnosis plan initiated by Yuancheng, which aims to reconstruct the mental outlook of the experimental subjects so that they will not act according to common sense. There are also efforts to prevent the spread of the photos and try to destroy them. The dead men who accepted the photos intend to kill a small number of victims and then commit suicide immediately to completely interrupt the spread.
Although Bincheng is deteriorating, it can still hold on for a while.
All cities thought so.
Unexpectedly, the risk of spillover had already begun brewing...
